Hadith Studies (Readings)
This topic aims to furnish the student with the practical skills required for reading and critically analysing the content of a hadith and cross-referencing the chains of narrators in hadith collections with the data in biographical collections and to train students in reading ahadith in their original Arabic, in the process familiarizing them with terminology and technical expressions, significant narrators, the content of some important hadith collections, and how to apply the skills they acquired in their Hadith Studies module and to improve upon them.
1
An overview of different themes and type of traditions
2
Selected traditions about God and his attributes from al-Kafi of Kulayni
3
Selected traditions on the character of the Prophet from Nahj al-Balaghah of Radi
4
Selected traditions on merits of Ali from Khasa’isu ‘Ali Ibn Abi Talib of Nasa’i
5
Selected traditions from al-Jami’ al-Saghir of Suyuti and ‘Uyun Akhbar al-Rida of Saduq
The teacher for this topic is Sheikh Subhani and the text book for it is al-Usul min al-Kafi, Al-Kulayni, Muhammad b. Ya'qub. (1377 AH) ed. by A. A. al-Ghaffari, Tehran: Maktabat al-Saduq